Archive for April, 2006
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
Look What The Cat Dragged In
First off, sorry for the blurry snap. And actually, Pepper didn’t bring the little guy inside. I was sitting in the kitchen and saw Pepper in the yard with the bird in his mouth and the thing was making a helluva racket as I attempted to chase Pep down and/or get him to drop the […]
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
Best Laid Plans All Wet
Damn if last night I hadn’t made a list of all the shit I needed to do today. Nothing earth shattering, but it was a plan — a plan! Groceries, dishes, laundry a bike ride, dusting, vacuuming, a stogie, blah blah blah. Then at 7:30 a.m. Susan hears a strange hissing sound coming from the […]
3 Comments » - Posted in money, gadgets by Will
Friday, April 28th, 2006
A Couple Shy Of Three Stones* Down
What used to be a Sunday weigh-in (trepidation included) has now become a whenever-the-hell-I-want weigh-in (trepidation long gone). Thus, when I stepped to it this morning the scale showed me down another two to 220 pounds.
Two-hundred and twenty pounds. Forty lost. Righteous and unbelievable! 6′2″ and 220 has always been my personal ideal height/weight pairing… […]
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Change Of Plans
My daughter’s going to be spending the weekend with Susan and me. I just got off the phone with her mom who’s heading up to Fresno this weekend with Kate’s sister for a skating competition and Kate doesn’t want to go with (it’s Fresno, can ya blame the kid?), so she wanted to know if […]
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Vaya Con Dios, Antonio Y LBC
I attended the service for Antonio Ruiz today. I was pleased to see he drew a crowd (of about 80 people), but I was not pleased to see that he was displayed in an open casket. I am not a fan of those. Let’s just say I’m not a fan of funerals in the first […]
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Well Hey There Little Feller!
Shortly after 8 a.m. this morning we found this inquisitive little mephitid doing what mephitids are known to do during the spring: seeking a reliable source of earthworms and insects. As Shadow whined from the kitchen floor and Jiggy moaned and scratched to be let out the back door (none of the other cats feigned […]
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
And In This Corner…
It is but a brief span when the morning sun is such in the spring sky as to spill its stuff sharply through the north-facing window of the livingroom into one of my favorite nooks of this glorious house:
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Loss Angeles: El Circo Loco & The LBC
I got confirmation today that one of my neighborhood’s fixtures, a colorful character who could regularly be found parading up and down Sunset Boulevard known as “El Circo Loco,” passed away last Friday evening. I first heard about it Saturday night when word circulated that he had been found dead on the street, but no […]
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Monday, April 24th, 2006
The View From Here
I previously tried to paint a word picture of the view from the brick patio I built last week. Here’s some actual pixels taken during a stogie break this afternoon:
[click here to see the bigger version]
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Monday, April 24th, 2006
Active Weekend
It’s rare that I don’t post at least once a day, and even rarer that I don’t feel the pang to do so, but yesterday, by the time Susan and I got home from spending eight hours in the Angeles National Forest above Altadena (not to mention scarfing some serious El Pollo Chicken as a […]
